In response to a surge in national collegiate activism, about two dozen Iowa City High School students participated in a walkout and all-day protest on the lawn of the school, followed by a march to the University of Iowa Pentacrest on Friday. The event was organized by the group City Students for Palestine. The students
After facing a needed $3.75 million budget reduction that led to the closure of Hills Elementary, the Iowa City Community School District also saw millions in losses from private school vouchers this year. The district board of directors voted on Tuesday to approve its budget for fiscal 2025, which has declined since the previous year.
Hundreds of students from Johnson and Simpson Elementary Schools, the Heritage Christian School and Bridgeport Middle School got a chance to get a crash course on the FFA program at Bridgeport High School on Friday.
The motto “Sharing the joy of adaptive running … one run at a time” is displayed on the website of Team Runfree, a nonprofit organization dedicated to training guides for visually impaired people to run outside and in races. This motto rang true on Sunday when the organization hosted a session in the Old Capitol
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors is planning on financially supporting nonprofit organizations, affordable housing, Historic Poor Farm projects in fiscal 2025. The supervisors unanimously approved the fiscal year budget, which starts July 1 and runs until June 30, 2025, on Thursday. The budget allocates $9.1 million to nonprofit partners and agencies, $1.1 million to
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Shafaqna English- UT Austin’s faculty condemn university leaders’s decision to “invite city policy to campus in response to a planned peaceful event and said faculty members won’t teach because of the school’s militarized response to a student event. One of the largest demonstrations took place at the University of Texas
Thousands of Louisiana residents who voted years ago to create a separate city out of a section of Baton Rouge will likely soon have their wish now that the state supreme court gave a major ruling in their favor.The move to create a separate school district in the St. George region of southeastern Baton Rouge began more than a decade ago and quickly evolved into a movement to create a separate City of St. George in the hopes that residents there would receive better services in exchange for...
The Iowa softball team fell short in its three-game series against the Minnesota Gophers this past weekend in Iowa City. The Hawkeyes fell to 4-16 in Big Ten play with losses of 7-5, 6-2, and 5-1. During Saturday’s Senior Night game, the Hawkeyes could not pull out a win despite a late rally in the
(The Center Square) – Charter schools in Washington state are doing a better job educating children in math and English Language Arts than traditional schools. That is one of the main takeaways from the Washington State Board of Education's Charter Schools Report. "The overall finding for all of the prior charter school reports and this seventh edition submitted by the SBE is that students attending Washington charter schools perform similar to or better than...
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Payne City was the topic at the Arts Complex at Middle Georgia State University on Monday. According to Susan Asbury, Assistant Professor of History, her Spring Historic Preservation Class teamed up with the Historic Macon Foundation for the semester for a research project uncovering the historical significance of Payne City, which was founded as a mill
By Hannah Echols | UAB News Shaundra Blakemore, M.D., and Brian Sims, M.D., Ph.D., were once students in the Birmingham City Schools system who had a passion for science. After college, they transformed their passions into a career by attending medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Fast forward, and they are returning to […]